Annie's Cards and Chat: Fred She Said........Part 2

Hello everyone, from a beautiful warm sunny Scotland. We have been having extraordinary weather of late and it looks set to stay for a wee while longer/ Hooray!!

Today I thought I would carry on with Fred She Said (FSS) designs and what I have done with them. Hopefully you will love them or get ideas form them for yourselves.

So here is the first card:

This beautiful little card is so spring-like I just had to share it.

I used a 4 and 1/2" square greeting card and covered it with gold striped paper, on top of which I glued a die cut shape with the yellow wheel-barrow image printed on it. I tied a lovely gold organza and satin bow on the side and found a sentiment I already had that says 'hope you feel better soon'.

Card: Mad About Cards

Ribbon and sentiment: my own stash

Photographic paper: Kodak

Image: FSS

There is really not much else to be said about this card, except hopefully someone is going to be cheered up by it very soon.

My next card is:

Completely different from the first one. This is an A5 white card with a image from a certain era on it almost in black and white, and I thought the purple roses decoupage set it off beautifully. The sentiment was one I already had.

Card: Paptiere (Aberdeen)

Image and sentiment: already had

Roses: FSS (on Kodak ultra premium photographic paper)

The roses are decoupaged and are very effective in a real situation as opposed to a photograph.

Here we have another:

Wheelbarrow card. In blue, this card is just so lovely. I used a 4 and 1/2" square card and covered it with blue and white checked paper. I printed the image of the wheel-barrow onto photographic paper and die cut it using my cuttlebug. I then tied a little twin coloured blue and pink organza ribbon at the side and used a sentiment I already had, which says 'Happy Birthday'.

Card: Mad About Cards

Ribbon and sentiment: My stash

Image: FSS

Photographic paper: Ultra Premium from Kodak

So now we come to one I made very recently, as I was feeling quite brave and used a FSS decoupage sheet.

So, here we are then. I really hope I did this sheet some justice. First of all I printed out the background design from a FSS download onto photographic paper. After using my cuttlebug to cut it out, I coloured the edge and the little flowers inside with a poppy red pen and highlighted the swirls with green. I then printed off a pre-colopured sheet of dahlias and leaves again on photographic paper, which I then cut out.

Once I had cut the flowers out, I cut down each petal and using a small paintbrush handle I rolled up the edges of the petals. I did this for every petal on each flower. I did the same with the leave. I then glued each flower together with the largest one at the bottom. I glued the leaves to the card and then the flower on top. In the centre of the flower I put a sequin with a gold gemstone on it with a little white from a gelly roll pen.

Down the side of the card I have glued a strip of red foamy velvet. The sentiment was one I already had, and it says, 'congratulations', which means it can be used for any occasion. I layered the sentiment onto a pale green piece of card, which I darkened the edge of so that it would match the leaves.

White Card: Papetiere (Aberdeen)

Green card: my stash

Velvet: Craft Creations

Sentiment: Mad About Cards

Photographic paper: Ultra premium direct from Kodak

My next card is a very simple one:

Here I have used A4 card made into an A5 greeting card by creasing the centre that was already striped in blue and white. I printed out a blue flower wreath downloaded from FSS, then cut it out using a die on my cuttlebug. in the centre I glued a satin open petal flower and placed a clear gemstone in the centre. The sentiment I already had. How easy is that then? Very easy and very effective too.

Card: Papetiere (Aberdeen)

Photographic paper: Ultra Premium from Kodak

Flower: Creaft Creations

Sentiment and gemstone: I already had.